'If she could blog for hours, if she could dance the day away in Manhattan, then how is it she couldn't hold down a job?'

The couple broke up several years ago and Mrs McGurk, who the court said had 'slept all day' while her husband worked and did household chores, was awarded the maintenance payments to help her live.

She had claimed that a car accident had left her unable to work.

But she took up belly dancing at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, a new age gallery in Chelsea, some three years ago and spent hours every day writing about the vigorous physical activity in her blog.

'My belly dancing is the reason why I adore myself so much,' McGurk posted on the blog, including photos of herself grooving at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, a new age gallery in Chelsea.

'Today I decided to dedicate myself more to my dance,' she wrote. 'Even though I dance everyday, it's not enough. It won't be enough until I dance for you all, until you feel my euphoria.

'Today as I danced myself silly, I lifted my head and elongated my neck as I swirled around,' she wrote in another post. 'And then it happened, I got really, really high.'

In one Facebook entry, a friend asked Dorothy McGurk why she had not posted photos of herself from a recent belly-dancing performance.

'Gotta be careful what goes on line pookies,' she answered. 'The ex would love to fry me with that.'

Mr McGurk heard about the pictures and went back to court to appeal the decision about the maintenance payments.

Judge Catherine DiDomenico ruled that the dancer was well enough to get a job and support herself.

She was also told to leave the couple's house and Mr McGurk was awarded 60 per cent of its value. The court had heard that the Mrs McGurk had only worked for two years of their 11-year marriage.

'The court credits husband's testimony that wife slept all day or otherwise spent her day on the computer participating in Internet blogs,' the judge wrote in a ruling that was printed in yesterday's New York Law Journal.

'Wife's belly-dancing was brought to this Court's attention in February 2009, when Husband attached a series of Wife's Internet blogs as exhibits to motion papers.

'At trial, wife incredibly testified that she stopped belly-dancing in 2008, notwithstanding her own blogs, which reveal otherwise.'

The judge believed the Mr McGurk's evidence that he did all of the cooking, cleaning, and laundry in addition to holding a full time job.